living in germany and priority is also going to be given to humanitarian crises for example young children or those who are seriously ill ok so kate looking at the bigger picture we have two changes taking effect today in germany's immigration system why is the country changing that system we've seen in the last few months germany's stands on migration policy getting tighter and tighter and tighter and that's largely a result of september's election last year when not only the conservatives but largely the conservatives they suffered huge losses to the fall right a.f.d. possy has an anti immigrant party and so now the the conservatives and particularly the sister party down in bavaria to. chancellor angela merkel's conservatives desperately trying to win back those votes that they lost now but of course there is even with these measures that we're seeing implemented today there is criticism now that as the numbers of refugees are going down whether really this is just a symbolic gesture from the interior minister. to show or at least appear as though